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Quote from: TongyOn Dell at the moment you can get this: Athlon X2 4200, 1024mb, 250gb sata, XP Pro, 19" tft and other extras for Ã,£410 delivered.
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Tongy

If I try to equal that on the Dell site I get a price of Ã,£620 inc vat

Well perhaps the deal has ended, but it was here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/?tag=d01e11a

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Tongy

It looks as if you can get it if you reduce the standard warranty offering to 1 Year return to base. Which overall is still not bad, all youd need would be decent gfx card.

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Quote from: TongyOn Dell at the moment you can get this: Athlon X2 4200, 1024mb, 250gb sata, XP Pro, 19" tft and other extras for Ã,£410 delivered.
Cheers
Tongy

If I try to equal that on the Dell site I get a price of Ã,£620 inc vat

Well perhaps the deal has ended, but it was here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/?tag=d01e11a

Cheers
Tongy

It looks as if you can get it if you reduce the standard warranty offering to 1 Year return to base. Which overall is still not bad, all youd need would be decent gfx card.

By adding in a new GFX card you invalidate your warranty though.  I love Dell, last place i was working they where almost exclusively Dell, on a 3 year lease, with 12 months warranty.  Oh, and if any of them break outside the warranty, but before 3 years you have to actually buy them.  Fantastic value, they got screwed because they didnt read the small print.  The dudes working the Helpdesk had dual monitor setups, and almost brand new machines.  When one of them broke it was shipped to storeroom because Dell refused to honour the warranty because the extra graphics card (PCI because they had no AGP or PCIe slots inside) wasnt supplied by Dell.  

Dell warranties dont bother me at all. Alot of my customers have bought Dells which have current waranties but would ather I worked on the systems instead. Same goes for Advent laptops and loads of others.

Laptop repairs are on the whole not worth it if a difficult one, however the most likely parts to go are the memory, hard disk and power supply unit.

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Tongy

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Quote from: Ceathreamhnan

Quote from: TongyOn Dell at the moment you can get this: Athlon X2 4200, 1024mb, 250gb sata, XP Pro, 19" tft and other extras for Ã,£410 delivered.
Cheers
Tongy

If I try to equal that on the Dell site I get a price of Ã,£620 inc vat

Well perhaps the deal has ended, but it was here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/?tag=d01e11a

Cheers
Tongy

It looks as if you can get it if you reduce the standard warranty offering to 1 Year return to base. Which overall is still not bad, all youd need would be decent gfx card.

By adding in a new GFX card you invalidate your warranty though.  I love Dell, last place i was working they where almost exclusively Dell, on a 3 year lease, with 12 months warranty.  Oh, and if any of them break outside the warranty, but before 3 years you have to actually buy them.  Fantastic value, they got screwed because they didnt read the small print.  The dudes working the Helpdesk had dual monitor setups, and almost brand new machines.  When one of them broke it was shipped to storeroom because Dell refused to honour the warranty because the extra graphics card (PCI because they had no AGP or PCIe slots inside) wasnt supplied by Dell.  

So your compnay got stitched up, not a very smart buy, not because they are bad mind you, I have 2 Dells. Their Poweredge servers are excellent.

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Tongy

Er... your companies fault for not calling dell prior to removing the "warranty is void" tamper proof stickers.

I managed to get written confirmation faxed through to my companies fax number to confirm I was allowed to install the extra DVD-RW we had hanging around into the bosses (personal purchase by him, not for the company contract) the machine.

Took 5 minutes talking to a tech guy, then his supervisor, and got a fax through within 10 minutes or so iirc.

Edit: the one condition I had to agree to, was to remove it prior to sending it back for a warranty repair, as it wouldnt be covered under dells insurance policy if the computer was damaged while under repair or something.

Just put somone through a Dell Exam. It can be done online in hours. They are then able to swap out whatever & diagnose faults for warranty repair without going through Dells chain of do this do that that takes about 3 days!

Just to add....

With a Dell Certification, IF you carry out any Warranty repairs yourself, then you can paid for the work direct by Dell, providing your part of their partnership program.

Got a link to that?

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So that puts you top of the list then                                :mrgreen:

Quote from: BeakerWhen one of them broke it was shipped to storeroom because Dell refused to honour the warranty because the extra graphics card (PCI because they had no AGP or PCIe slots inside) wasnt supplied by Dell.  

And he left it in until they came to check it? or did he admit it over the phone? :shock:

Quote from: NorphyGot a link to that?

http://dcse.dell.com/